The three-week broadcast on 87.7FM is seen as a possible prelude to a full-time licence being granted later this year.

The station has a range of five miles and will broadcast music from the past 40 years, as well as news, information, sport, chat and traffic updates from a mobile studio based in the car park of the town's Tesco, in Emscote Road.

A spokesman said: "Warwick Local Radio will be the voice of Warwick and something that everyone can access and call their own".